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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






2. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






3. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






4. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






5. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






6. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






7. A short saying with a moral.






8. A three-line stanza.






9. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






10. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






11. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






12. A poem that tells a story.






13. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






14. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






15. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






16. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






17. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






18. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






19. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






20. A character struggles against some outside force.






21. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






22. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






23. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






24. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






25. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






26. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






27. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






28. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






29. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






30. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






31. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






32. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






33. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






34. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






35. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






36. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






37. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






38. The person who 'tells' the story.






39. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






40. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






41. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






42. Broken down acts.






43. A strong pause within a line.






44. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






45. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






46. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






47. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






48. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






49. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






50. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.